Primary Sources--Resources

Helpful Websites

• LOC--Professional Development Resources
• LOC--Primary Sources and the Common Core
• Primary and Secondary Sources Tutorial--Helios
• Primary Sources--Joyce Valenza
• Primary Sources on the Web
• Westward Expansion: Primary Sources on Mountain Men
• YouTubeTutorials--Creating an Exemplary Primary Source Annotated Resource Set
• Utah Teaching With Primary Sources
• Primary Sources Analysis Teachers' Guide
• World Book Advanced--Teaching with Documents

Websites for Primary Sources

• Library of Congress
• Docs Teach (National Archives)
  • Docs Teach Tutorials
• Digital Vaults (National Archives)
  • Digital Vaults Teacher Tutorial
  • Try the "Pathways Challenges"
• Smithsonian
• Virtual Museums
• Repositories of Primary Sources
• Mountain West Digital Library
• Primary Sources Resources: Workshop in American History
• Primary Source
• National Archive
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
• Bill of Rights Institute
• EduPlace's Primary Sources on the Web
• Civil War Primary Sources
• World War II Primary Sources
• Primary Documents Relating to World War II
• A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust--Documents
• Historical Scene Investigation
• World Digital Library
• African American History and Primary Sources

Primary Sources Activities

• Docs Teach: Find and Use Activities
• Docs Teach: Create Your Own Interactive Learning Activity
• Examples of Primary and Secondary Sources in Different Subject Areas
• 9th Grade--Vietnam War--Primary Sources
• 8th Grade--Civil War--Primary Sources
• 7th Grade--Utah Studies--Primary Sources
• CFA--Primary Sources
• CFA--8th Grade
• Child Labor Photo Analysis
• Analyzing Primary Sources
• Egypt--Analyzing Primary Sources
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Lesson Plans

• Civil War Times--A Look at Culture
• Primary Sources--7th
• World War I--Primary Source
• World War II--Primary Sources
• U.S. History--Primary Sources
• Jamestown--Artifacts and Artifact Inference
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Teacher and Student Research

• World Book Advanced

  • Teaching With Documents (WWII--"A Date Which Will Live in Infamy")
  • Search by theme, title or author (Vicksburg, John Adams)

• Utah's Online Library--EBSCO Student Research Center (Civil Rights)

  • Current newspaper, magazine, radio and TV news transcripts
  • Can search for Primary Documents

• Utah's Online Library--EBSCO Points of View database

  • Look for Primary Source Documents in "Related Information"

• Utah's Online Library--Gale Reference Collection: Opposing Viewpoints in Context

  • Look for Primary Sources section (usually at bottom of the page)

• Utah's Online Library--Utah Digital Newspapers (Farewell to Arms)

  
  

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• Library of Congress (American Memory) (Walt Whitman, p. 90)

  • Primary Source Sets for Teachers (The Grapes of Wrath)

• National Archives

  • Finding Primary Sources
  • National Archives--Archival Research Catalog
  • Teaching With Documents: Lesson Plans (Japanese Relocation)

• Library Catalog

  • Put in keyword "primary sources"

• Google-- Shakespeare (or any other theme) "primary sources"

  • Shakespeare Folger Library Primary Sources Archive
  • William Shakespeare Primary Sources

• YouTube(gasp!) (Helen Keller)

• Wikipedia (gasp!) (Canterbury Tales--images, references, and external sources)

Other Resources:

Rachel Murphy's Library's Library of Congress page
Find and Use Activities--Docs Teach
Tools to Create Primary Source Activities--Docs Teach
Quarterly Newsletter (see information for Primary sources)

Library of Congress Links:

Online Professional Development Modules--great!
Library of Congress--Teachers
Classroom Materials--search by Common Core or state standards